The Portland Trail Blazers fell to the Brooklyn Nets 111-97 this afternoon on the final stop of a four-game road trip, keeping contact with Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and company until a difficult fourth quarter.
The Blazers stayed tight in the first half, trailing 58-57 at the break. They trailed 84-80 after the third. Then in that decisive fourth quarter, the offense stopped and the wheels fell off.
“I thought we had a pretty good half the first half,” Portland head coach Chauncey Billups said in his postgame assessment. “I thought we set a pretty good tone for ourselves and [then] came out really struggling in the third quarter, but the fourth quarter, obviously, [we] just couldn’t score.